June Gophers @ Meta!
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Hello There! And welcome to our June Gophers @ Meta event!
It's immensely exciting that we'll be visiting Meta for our June event, but with great big office comes great responsibility, so it is CRITICAL THAT YOU HEED THESE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS!
- You MUST bring Government Issued Photo ID with you, matching the name with which you sign up to this event
- You MUST complete the NDA that will be emailed to you in advance of the event, before arrival
- You MUST be over 18 years old
- You MUST NOT record when inside the venue
- You MUST wear the lanyard provided to you on the night at all times
And needless to say, if you satisfy all of those criteria and manage to make it through security without being tackled, you MUST have a lovely time otherwise you know I'll be giving you a hard stare. A massive thank you to Meta for hosting!
See you all there!
==== 📓 Agenda📓 =====
(Certain timings and orders may be subject to change)
5:30pm onwards: Sign-In, Food & Refreshments
6:55pm: Introduction
7:00pm: 🗣️ Jon Bodner: From the Basics to synctest
Testing is fundamental to software engineering and as a language focused on software engineering, Go includes a wide variety of tools to ensure your code is working as expected. I’ll walk through the basics of testing in Go, and then cover some of the more advanced tools: benchmarking, fuzzing, and the new synctest package.
7:40pm: Raffle and Break
8:10pm: 🗣️ Simon Emms: Failure Happens. Your Code Shouldn't Care
As Gophers, we expect our code to be retried, restarted and run more than once. The challenge is making that safe and maintainable without layers of defensive plumbing. Temporal lets us write reliable workflows in Go that automatically recover from crashes and restarts, while still looking and feeling like normal Go code. In this talk, I’ll explain how it works and prove it with a live demo that treats failure as just another code path.
8:40pm: Raffle Winners!
9:00pm: Pub!
==== 🎉 Prizes & Discounts! 🎉 =====
JetBrains Raffle! - We have 3 free JetBrains Product licenses to give away to some of our lucky attendees!
Ardan Labs Raffle! - We're giving away one course license for Ardan Labs' Ultimate Go Bundle!
Manning Publications Raffle! - We're giving away 4 free Go e-books!
45% Manning Publications Discount - a massive discount provided by the fine people at Manning! You can also support London Gophers Events by purchasing via our affiliate link HERE - Use Code "LGMeetup45" for 45% off!
GopherConUK Raffle! - We're giving away one free ticket!!!
10% GopherConUK Discount - The lovely people over at GopherConUK have provided a discount code for GopherConUK 2026! At checkout, use code "GCUK26LGM" for 10% off!
==== 💡 Priority Queue 💡 =====
We reserve 20% of the attendee spots at our events for those who are underrepresented in tech.
If they join the waitlist and there is a reserved spot open they will be bumped into going!
These spots are reserved until the last Sunday before the event.
How do we define underrepresented? We use public surveys done by the tech community such as the ones linked below.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-demographics
https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/#gender-and-development
==== 📢 Become a Speaker! 📢 =====
Have something to say? We want to listen! We are always looking for new speakers who want to share their adventures with Go and have mentors who can help.
You can sign up to be a speaker here: https://gophers.london/apply
==== 🧳Looking For a New Adventure? 🧳 =====
On the Gophers Slack (https://gophers.slack.com) there is a #london-jobs channel where company and recruiters can post job opportunities.
==== 📞 How To Reach Us 📞 =====
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